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...Everything seems a bit rosier now," says Jonathan Zeman, COO of Lan Kwai Fong Holdings, owner of many trendy bars, restaurants and serviced apartments catering to the expat community in the city center. "We are seeing a lot more business travelers at our places." That includes those on the steep stone streets of the lively Lan Kwai Fong district, a must-stop for visitors before the epidemic...
...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...Veterans Affairs System, for example, bargains for steep discounts in drug prices, as do large HMO’s, most of which also have lists of preferred drugs called formularies. Likewise, Medicaid cannot be charged more for drugs than pharmaceutical companies’ most favored customers...
Father Roman is used to feeling his shoulders brush against the stucco walls in this quick, but steep climb. He is in charge of a group of several monks that operate the bells on an everyday basis as well as more elaborate orchestras on holidays...
...prison for electoral fraud; in Brisbane. In 1997, Hanson and One Nation co-founder David Ettridge falsely claimed to have the 500 members necessary to register their party, then accepted $330,000 in government electoral funding. Hanson's party is already in disarray and her political career in steep decline; several political rivals, including Prime Minister John Howard, have said the sentence is harsh...